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Moments After Burial, Baby Named After ‘Bubbe’

A deeply moving sight unfolded at the Montefiore Cemetery in Queens yesterday, Monday, as the Friedman family gathered together to bury their matriarch, Mrs. Miriam Tzimmel Friedman, OBM. Merely a few minutes after the burial was complete, cries of “Mazal Tov!” echoed through the Beis Hachaim – the Niftar’s granddaughter had just given birth to a healthy baby girl.

New Torah Dedicated to Jewish Soldiers of D-Day

The waves crashing into the spectacular beaches of Normandy do not reveal the historic battles that took place there, 73 years ago, during the “D-Day” invasion of Nazi-occupied France. It was in this setting that a Siyum Sefer Torah was held for the Chabad Center of Caen, with hundreds of local Jewish residents emotionally singing “Ani Maamin” inside a German Army bunker, their thoughts on the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to end WWII and the Holocaust.